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Is Removing Confederate Monuments, Changing Sports Teams Names Just A Distraction?

Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National CorrespondentJanuary 21, 2021

Protests and unrest in 2020 sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, shined an even brighter spotlight on police brutality against African Americans.

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NFL Executives on Diversity: ‘We’ve Got to Do Better’

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National CorrespondentDecember 17, 2020

“When you look at mobility of Black men and Black women in professional sports, it’s poor,” said Troy Vincent, the league’s executive vice president of football operations. The only person in a higher post in the NFL is Commissioner Roger Goodell.